Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagen climate conference’

Uncontrolled, Large Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Crime that Needs Policing

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 13:43 By GSerrano

The Copenhagen Climate Conference or more officially known as COP15 United Nations Climate Conference did not end as intended. Many call it a dismal failure. Some, though, are hopeful that it has, at least, paved the way for a more binding agreement to happen sometime next year.
The responsibility to follow through on the efforts jumpstarted [...]

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Obama’s Huge Foreign Assignments in 2010

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 4:29 By GSerrano

A significant way in how the whole world turns actually rests in the hands of US President Barack Obama and his administration. Tempering the nuclearization of global weaponry, harnessing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions posthaste and on a global scale, truly changing the fate of Afghans, assuring stability in the potentially combustible powder keg [...]

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Climate Migration: definite upcoming reality

Sunday, December 20, 2009 2:18 By GSerrano

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change Conference closed [...]

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Altercycle: An Innovative Bike that Blows Your Mind Away

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 20:01 By Jaiyant Cavale

Where on one side we have countries trying to strike a deal on emission cuts in Copenhagen Climate Conference, the design buffs are on a stride to make convenient eco-friendly modes of travel. Daniel Finkelstein, an Industrial Designer though of revamping the way we look at Bicycles.
Altercycle, as the designer hails it, is a hinged [...]

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US failure to make binding commitments at Copenhagen Climate Conference: “Yes We Can!” has become “No, sorry, we couldn’t possibly.”

Monday, December 7, 2009 11:50 By GSerrano

’No one said Copenhagen was going to be easy. After all, at its heart, the climate summit is about persuading nearly 200 nations to use drastically less of the fossil fuels that power the global economy.’
The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States gave hope that a legally binding climate agreement [...]

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IPCC Chief on Copenhagen Climate Conference: ‘the global community may have to move ahead without any commitment from the United States’

Monday, December 7, 2009 10:59 By GSerrano

A lot of skepticism has grown regarding the success of the just opened United Nations Climate Change Conference (December 7-18, 2009), more commonly called Copenhagen Climate Conference. Skeptics believe that climate agreements will not be reached during the summit.
On the other hand, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, [...]

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Copenhagen Climate Conference: why it would, could, and should fail

Monday, December 7, 2009 9:52 By GSerrano

Realists claim that the Copenhagen Climate Conference or the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference 2009 will fail in its intended agenda, and that no climate deals will be forged between December 7 and 18 of 2009. Months before the climate summit, it had already been clear that climate negotiations will hit a standoff. ‘The rest [...]

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“The Copenhagen Diagnosis”: climate scientists dramatically debunk themselves

Monday, December 7, 2009 9:46 By GSerrano

Right before the Copenhagen Climate Conference, ‘a group of scientists issued an update on the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their conclusions? Ice at both poles is melting faster than predicted, the claims of recent global cooling are wrong, and world leaders must act fast if steep temperature rises are to [...]

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China’s ‘new’ carbon reduction targets: only a domestic goal, not for Copenhagen deal

Monday, December 7, 2009 9:40 By GSerrano

Beijing’s declaration that the country aims ‘to reduce its carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent by 2020’ does not mean that ‘China’s overall emissions will drop, it just means that CO2 emissions per unit of GDP will decline. Because China’s economy is growing at such a torrid pace, overall emissions will keep ticking upward—it’s [...]

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China, world’s largest CO2 emitter, pledges to cut greenhouse gases

Monday, December 7, 2009 9:35 By GSerrano

China, the world’s largest CO2 emitter, has pledged to increase its efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will also attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit, officially known as COP15 UN Climate Change Conference 2009, ‘to show the country’s commitment to the global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions.’ ‘China’s State Council said [...]

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